Performance monitoring
Photo-density surveys repeated regionwide every 1 to 3 years can document the benefits of projects and the consequences of insufficient investment. Underlying photography helps decision-makers reach consensus about where to fund projects. And website mobility maps show voters that congestion is a high priority.
Origin - destination surveys
Making plans to alleviate specific bottlenecks requires knowledge about driver demand for each potential movement. Using the latest high-resolution digital cameras firing at a rate of one frame every two seconds, Skycomp traces actual routes taken by drivers, and builds true origin-destination tables.
Public involvement resources
A well-planned first meeting with the public can set a high level of trust between local residents, investigating engineers, and a sponsoring agency. Skycomp survey products give planners local knowledge, helpful for leading public meetings. Projection of graphics and aerial photography facilitates discussion, and audiences go home understanding that a competent investigation is underway.
Planning studies
Airborne observers can document highway mobility on corridors that are miles apart. Small surveys provide qualitative insight to planners, and can produce quantitative data that are too hard, unsafe or expensive to get on the ground. Photographic evidence can help to convince internal staff members, decision-makers, and even judges or arbitrators.
Model calibration
Audiences will not accept a computer model's estimate of future conditions when that model cannot accurately portray current conditions. Skycomp data are used to calibrate regional air quality and mobility models, produce flow rates of individual ramps at large interchanges, understand speed and weaving behaviors for Highway Capacity Manual research, and produce origin-destination routing tables.
Contact Skycomp to learn how we can help get the information you need:
5999 Harpers Farm Road, E-225
Columbia, Maryland 21044
Telephone: 410-884-6900
Toll-free: 1-888-SKYCOMP
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